tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907885067602758337.post7882498859465038867..comments2024-03-08T09:52:59.827-05:00Comments on Middle Passages: Would there be Life without Windows?Lizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16170701034715108039noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907885067602758337.post-69854706946140457582012-05-06T23:16:04.736-04:002012-05-06T23:16:04.736-04:00I know! How did they ever ever do all that writin...I know! How did they ever ever do all that writing without word processors????Reenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17813380986631007962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907885067602758337.post-64079157744261453562012-05-04T03:02:53.720-04:002012-05-04T03:02:53.720-04:00I can't even fathom the idea of rewriting a se...I can't even fathom the idea of rewriting a second draft on a type writer let alone creating a handwritten manuscript. Maybe I should give it a try though and see if I go mad :) Thanks for making me see how easy technology makes the process of writing. CheersClayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05644167247298285616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907885067602758337.post-57148304421709482622012-05-03T18:22:45.705-04:002012-05-03T18:22:45.705-04:00In the early days I used to handwrite everything. ...In the early days I used to handwrite everything. A friend who was good at typing transcribed it all for me. lol. Slow and painful. Yay for technology.Lynda R Young as Elle Cardyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09975442291393246148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907885067602758337.post-43875435819738449662012-05-03T12:32:08.740-04:002012-05-03T12:32:08.740-04:00I believe that writers are compelled to write and ...I believe that writers are compelled to write and I'm sure you'd have found a way to do it Liza, even if computers hadn't come on to the scene. My first was an old manual typewriter and then I inherited an electric. Boy, was I thrilled at the time. <br /><br />Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that Austen and Dickens had "people" who frantically wrote their fingers to the bone, as the words flowed. Hmmmm, I think I'm going to have to look that up now. <br /><br />Thanks for stopping by and filling me in on your "sauce story". Isn't it funny how some people just refuse to share their culinary secrets? I don't understand it myself. Thank God your M-I-L broke that cycle! LOLMary Sullivan Frasierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10796241299065062308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907885067602758337.post-32852551928680891022012-05-03T11:15:30.559-04:002012-05-03T11:15:30.559-04:00I am very thankful for computers. I can't imag...I am very thankful for computers. I can't imagine how Jane Austen and Charles Dickens did it either! Those authors back then were a determined bunch. We probably wouldn't have so many books published now if the computer hadn't been invented.<br /><br />Allison (<a href="http://www.alsgeekbanter.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Geek Banter</a>)Allisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02586970076965983267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907885067602758337.post-13498716063368795832012-05-02T20:26:52.546-04:002012-05-02T20:26:52.546-04:00That's an interesting point. I hand wrote and ...That's an interesting point. I hand wrote and then typed two essays a week in college. I got really good at getting them close to good on the first draft because I didn't want to spend the time doing edits. Now I spend forever doing edit after edit after edit - it doesn't matter if the first draft is crap or not. I wonder if I would have been a better writer if I just had a typewriter and a pen.Tonjahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08652479946102909276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907885067602758337.post-32334426320256785452012-05-02T18:39:40.173-04:002012-05-02T18:39:40.173-04:00There's so much truth to that. I can't eve...There's so much truth to that. I can't even begin to fathom writing out a novel by long hand!Johanna Garthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15515478890074610814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907885067602758337.post-71325257915305829842012-05-02T10:31:24.248-04:002012-05-02T10:31:24.248-04:00Yes, can you imagine typing out a full manuscript ...Yes, can you imagine typing out a full manuscript again and again? I write by hand now and then, but it all goes into the computer at some point, and thank God!Alex J. Cavanaughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09770065693345181702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907885067602758337.post-79027205972184289322012-05-02T09:48:45.661-04:002012-05-02T09:48:45.661-04:00I guess people will always find ways to express th...I guess people will always find ways to express their creativity with or without technology!<br /><br />Take care<br />xOld Kittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13185547869183611159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907885067602758337.post-55609167264832281142012-05-02T08:28:17.701-04:002012-05-02T08:28:17.701-04:00Rest assured, Liza, you would write it out if you ...Rest assured, Liza, you would write it out if you had to! I'm of the same era you are, and when we have a story we must put to paper, we do it!<br /><br />My very first completed novel (which will never see the light outside the filing cabinet [yes, a real filing cabinet, not a virtual one]) was hand written and edited. Then, I actually typed it out on a real live typewriter (1987-89)! I have no idea how many words it is--maybe 50-60K? But it never went beyond the first or "second" draft. I can't even imagine doing edits and revisions now, without my computer. It would take 10x as long.<br /><br />I LOVE technology! :)J.B. Chicoinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06894797553204276281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907885067602758337.post-76276826304099802202012-05-02T07:33:22.592-04:002012-05-02T07:33:22.592-04:00I think if Jane Austen or Charles Dickens had comp...I think if Jane Austen or Charles Dickens had computers, they would have used them. (:Elise Fallsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14734537117333738468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907885067602758337.post-26785385818517791692012-05-02T07:17:50.884-04:002012-05-02T07:17:50.884-04:00We do have it easier these days, don't we?
I...We do have it easier these days, don't we? <br /><br />I'm still (just about) in my twenties and I used to write my stories on my typewriter when I was a teenager!Jennifer Joycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14285381115807201869noreply@blogger.com